P. J. Harvey Quotes
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.
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We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
